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Fresh off their company's successful bid for the TV rights to the Olympic Games through 2020, NBCUniversal's top executives are on a three-day retreat in Santa Barbara, Calif., according to this report. It's the first such meeting since NBCU was taken over by Comcast, and one of the topics of discussion is expected to be how to most effectively leverage the company's content across its many media platforms.

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Peter Chernin has shifted his production company's TV unit from 20th Century Fox TV to NBCUniversal and Universal Television under a two-year agreement. Chernin Entertainment also has elevated Jenno Topping to president of film and TV, and the company plans to soon announce an executive in charge of TV development and production.

NBCUniversal's Audience Targeting Platform will now supplement its third-party information with set-top data from parent Comcast, said Linda Yaccarino, chair of NBCU's ad sales. Comcast reportedly retained the data during the regulatory review of its now defunct merger with Time Warner Cable to allay concerns over customer privacy.

NBCUniversal hasn't yet been contacted by Apple about licensing its shows for a rumored Web TV service, states a letter from NBCU parent Comcast to the Federal Communications Commission. Comcast was responding to a filing by a group that opposes its merger with Time Warner Cable. The filing pointed to a Wall Street Journal report that said Comcast and Apple had a "falling-out" and weren't negotiating.

Marlene Sanchez Dooner, senior vice president of investor relations at Comcast, has been named by NBCUniversal to the new position of executive vice president of Hispanic enterprises and content. Dooner's role will include oversight of multiplatform Hispanic initiatives, including financial planning, strategy and business development for Telemundo and its younger-skewing sibling, mun2.

Scott Schiller, the head of digital entertainment ad sales at Comcast, is transitioning within the company to executive vice president of digital media sales for the NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media division. In the newly created position, Schiller will run ad sales for Fandango, iVillage, DailyCandy, Swirl and Television Without Pity.